Nasus vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Nasus
based on 1,020 Nasus vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Ryze
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Advice to Win Against Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Nasus vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some significant Nasus versus Ryze matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between these two champions. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ryze..
Nasus normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Ryze
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Who is Better, Nasus or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when taking on Ryze, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Ryze, when facing one another, Nasus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Ryze.
Moreover, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Ryze matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Ryze. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Ryze. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nasus versus Ryze build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Ryze than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 50.6% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Ryze as Nasus, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nasus vs Ryze counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Nasus are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.